Jon Stewart during a taping of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" in New York.

Jon Stewart during a taping of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" in New York.

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Jon Stewart changed American culture. You can't say that about many performers, especially comedians working on a basic-cable channel that rarely drew more than a million viewers for any of its shows before him.

He took over the fake anchor desk at Comedy Central in 1999 at a time when social scientists regularly lamented the political apathy of young adults, and he made politics cool for millennials....

Director and writer Barry Levinson at the 30th anniversary celebration of the film "Diner" (1982) at Johns Hopkins University in 2011.

Director and writer Barry Levinson at the 30th anniversary celebration of the film "Diner" (1982) at Johns Hopkins University in 2011.

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Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana, whose TV credits extend back to NBC’s “Homicide: Life on the Street” and HBO’s “Oz,” have been signed by the National Geographic Channel to do a miniseries on the last days of the American Embassy in Saigon.

The production titled “Last Man Out,” will chronicle the evacuation of the embassy at the end of American involvement in the Vietnam War. It will be written by...

Longtime Baltimore Sun television/media critic David Zurawik won a National Press Club Award on Wednesday.

The Washington-based journalism institution honored Zurawik with the Arthur Rowse Award for press criticism in print for his "strong series of columns on the shifting media environment and the power of videos from alternative organizations or citizens that are reshaping our culture and prompting...

Stephen Yasko, general manager of WTMD, is pictured, through the studio window, conducting a meeting at the station in this Sun photograph from 2012.

Stephen Yasko, general manager of WTMD, is pictured, through the studio window, conducting a meeting at the station in this Sun photograph from 2012.

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After more than decade of leading radio station WTMD (89.7 FM), General Manager Stephen Yasko is out, according to Steve Reeves, chairman of the board of Towson University Public Media, which operates WTMD under contract with the University.

"Steve is not the executive director of WTMD today," Reeves wrote Tuesday in answer to email inquiries from The Sun. "We have a different individual, Scott Mullins,...

It is unlikely that viewers will notice any change on their screens, but the job of monitoring the schedule and flow of programs broadcast on Maryland Public Television will now be done out of Boston rather than Owings Mills.

The move will result in the elimination of two positions at the station, MPT management said.

In a plan that MPT President and CEO Larry D. Unger estimates will save the station...